Hi Celso, The reason for this is that avahi-browse -a uses a method of discovery which first determines what services types are available on the network, and then goes and queries those service types - now not all devices (and apparently not your printer) advertise that they are advertise service types (if that makes sense.)
If you specifically browsed for the printer with avahi-browse _printer._tcp, it would appear. I do wonder if avahi-browse should look for a common bunch of services by default? Cheers, Trent On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:48:40PM +0100, Celso Pinto wrote: > Hi guys, > > at work we have a network printer that supports ZeroConf advertising > (and indeed it's advertising itself on the network) but I can't manage > to get it displayed when running avahi-browse -a. > > So I dug up the printer configuration and noticed that it advertises > itself on the local network as printer_name._printer._tcp.local. Is > there a way for me to force Avahi to recognize this pattern and actually > display this printer when I run avahi-browse? > > I have CUPS with DNSSD enabled but it doesn't display this printer and > I'm guessing it's because Avahi skips it. If this should be completely > transparent to Avahi let me know and also apologise for bothering you > with these small details. > > Cheers, > Celso > > > > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi -- Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bur.st Networking Inc. _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
